Tokyo’s new virus cases on slight downward trend

Tokyo logged 27,453 new cases of infection with the novel coronavirus on Thursday, down 3,794 from the same day last week and marking the third consecutive day of a week-on-week decrease.

In Osaka, however, there were 24,323 new cases reported, an increase of 2,272 from last Thursday.

As of 5 p.m., a record number of new cases were reported in the prefectures of Akita, Kagoshima, Kumamoto, Mie, Nagano, Nagasaki, Niigata and Yamaguchi.